Hello Andy!
"Andy Wingo" <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> commit f4e45e91f265429ad1c42d3905dd3c05a0bc0924
> Author: Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com>
> Date: Thu May 26 18:14:32 2011 +0200
>
> lazily init futures worker pool
>
> * module/ice-9/futures.scm (%workers, %create-workers!)
> (create-workers!): Define a mechanism to spawn off the future threads
> only when the first future is created.
> (make-future): Call create-workers! here.
[...]
> "Return a new future for THUNK. Execution may start at any point
> concurrently, or it can start at the time when the returned future is
> touched."
> + (create-workers!)
Wouldn't it be more efficient to instead do:
(if (null? %workers)
(%create-workers!))
Once the workers are created, that would leave 0 function calls.
Thanks,
Ludo'.
